Bill Text: MI HB4505 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: State; other; accurate boundaries of the state; establish in statute. Amends title & secs. 1 & 2 of 1945 PA 78 (MCL 2.1 & 2.2).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-10 - Printed Bill Filed 04/10/2013 [HB4505 Detail]

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HOUSE BILL No. 4505

 

April 9, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Potvin, LaVoy, Cavanagh and Rendon and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1945 PA 78, entitled

 

"An act to declare the area of the state of Michigan,"

 

by amending the title and sections 1 and 2 (MCL 2.1 and 2.2).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to declare the area and boundaries of the state of

 

Michigan.

 

     Sec. 1. (1) The total area of the state of Michigan is hereby

 

declared to be approximately 96,720 square miles consisting of

 

57,022 square miles of land and 39,698 square miles of inland water

 

as based upon the boundaries of the state of Michigan according to

 

article I, section 1 of the constitution of the state of Michigan

 

of 1909, and United States statutes at large, volume 5, page 49,

 


chapter 99, approved June 15, 1836 as described in subsection (2).

 

     (2) The state of Michigan consists of and has jurisdiction

 

over the territory embraced within the boundaries described in this

 

act. The boundaries of this state and its bordering states and

 

country are as follows:

 

     (a) For Ohio, the northwest corner of the state of Ohio, as

 

established by act of Congress, entitled "An Act to establish the

 

northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the

 

admission of the state of Michigan into the Union upon the

 

conditions therein expressed," approved June fifteenth, 1836;

 

chapter 99, 5 Stat. 49 (1836), then easterly with the said boundary

 

line of the state of Ohio, as adopted in 1917 by Joint Resolution

 

Number 6 of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, entitled "A

 

JOINT RESOLUTION with reference to the re-location and permanent

 

monumenting of the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan," SJR 6,

 

1917 then continuing through Posts 70 and 71 to the original North

 

Cape of Maumee Bay and Lake Erie as described in the United States

 

Supreme Court Special Master's Decree 410 U.S. February 22, 1973.

 

     (b) For Indiana, boundaries described as established by the

 

act of congress on the nineteenth of April, 1816; chapter 57, 3

 

Stat. 289, from the boundary point with Illinois, then east with

 

the northern boundary line of the state of Indiana to the northeast

 

corner thereof, and thence south with the eastern boundary line of

 

the state of Indiana to the place of beginning as provided in the

 

Michigan and Indiana state line monumentation act, 2010 PA 259, MCL

 

54.291 to 54.305.

 

     (c) For Illinois, the boundaries described from point A as

 


described in section 1 of 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201, the southeast

 

corner of the state of Wisconsin, thence southerly through Lake

 

Michigan with the boundary line of the state of Illinois described

 

in chapter 67, 3 Stat. 428, signed April eighteenth, 1818, to the

 

northern boundary line of the state of Indiana.

 

     (d) For Wisconsin, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,

 

MCL 2.201 to 2.208 and the decree of the United States Supreme

 

Court entered March sixteenth, 1936; 297 US 547.

 

     (e) For Minnesota, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,

 

MCL 2.201 to 2.208.

 

     (f) For Canada, the international boundary ascertained and

 

reestablished pursuant to Article IV of the Treaty between Great

 

Britain and the United States, signed April Eleventh, 1908: Article

 

IV, 35 Stat. 2009.

 

     (3) This description shall be printed in the Michigan manual

 

and successor publications with an unofficial appropriate general

 

reference map.

 

     Sec. 2. All official publications of the state of Michigan

 

issued after the passage of this act, in which the total area ,

 

total land area or total water area of Michigan are is stated,

 

shall use the figures set forth figure provided in section 1.

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